Chuck Klosterman Quotes

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

Let's put in place programs to ensure that all of our children are reading by third grade.

You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

My dad taught me to read by reading comic strips in the Saturday paper and Archie comics.

I am glad to say that I used to read a lot right from a young age.

We went to public schools from kindergarten through seventh grade, and it was fun.

When you're worrying about crime rates, go help teach kids to read at a young age so that their chances for climbing out of poverty and achieving success in school and life go up.

I'm a pretty well-read person. I read my paper every morning.

I have 9 children; I'm a big believer in childhood education, but we've got to be smart about getting a good return on the investment of those dollars.

We read to our kids at bedtime because we want to have literacy, but what are we doing to make sure kids are equally fascinated by science?

My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year old.

Children who attend high-quality early care and education programs before kindergarten perform better on assessments of reading and math skills and socio-emotional development. However, since early care and education programs are so expensive, low-income families face significant barriers.

Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.

I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

We must reach out to villages even in scorching heat with temperature upto 44 C. We must ensure that no girl child remains illiterate. I request all the social institutions and the media world to create a joyous environment for education in the month of June (when schools re-open), an environment to encourage children to go to school. We will derive the satisfaction of having done a social good.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.